Pillen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pillen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: plural of pil.
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of pil
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pillen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of pillar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite masculine singular of pille
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of pille
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of pillar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rudi Pillenb. 1931BEBelgian painter (1931-2014)
- Jim Pillenb. 1955USGovernor of Nebraska since 2023
- Jasper Pillenb. 1984BEBelgian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 259 | #79,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 251 | #72,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 208 | #89,069 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 162 | #12,717 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 156 | #10,640 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pillen mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of pil Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pillen have the most bearers?
- Pillen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Pillen?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pillenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pillen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.